Li Yan asked his troops to take turns defending themselves to prevent the night attack of the thieves. If you love to play and watch, you can come to the net. But the thieves did not attack at all, and did not even harass them. If he hadn't seen that the thieves' tent was still there, and there were still soldiers guarding outside, he would have thought that Luo Rucai had withdrawn.

When the sky was dark, suddenly two fireworks exploded in the western sky, one red and one green. Almost at the same time, a continuous stream of explosions was heard from the west.

Li Zhong had already prepared his troops, but only waited for the second half of the night to take advantage of the enemy's sentry when they were sleepy to let the troops sneak into a distance of only eighty paces from the enemy's camp. By the time his side had just arrived, the other five troops had also sent people to report, and they were ready.

Li Zhong assigned the five troops in the direction of each other, and after they saw the signal, they began to surround the location of the thieves.

And Li Zhong here, he needs to defeat this group of thieves before he can complete the siege of the large army of thieves. So he concentrated twelve tiger squat cannons, and after firing the signal, he bombarded the enemy camp with all his might.

"Boom", "boom" explosions came and went, blowing up the thieves who ran out of the camp because of the explosion of the two fireworks.

The thieves shouted and ran in the camp. Some were still looking for their armor and weapons, while others were looking for their leader. Some were injured and cried out for help from their companions who ran by, while others were so shaken by the explosion that they couldn't hear and screamed so that they could hear even the slightest sound to prove that their ears were fine.

Li Zhong's Tiger Squat Gunners adjusted the angle of the muzzle, so that the muzzle of the gun was lowered a little after firing a shell, until the lowest forty-five degrees, which was also the longest distance that could be fired.

"Tong", "Tong" adjusted artillery continued to fire, bombs exploded in the depths of the enemy camp.

After the Tiger Squat Cannon fired two rounds of shells, Li Zhong ordered, "Move forward." ”

At this time, the troops had already lined up, but instead of the previous hollow phalanx, they were lined up in a line, and there were only three rows. The front row is a mix of pikemen and sword and shield men, and the back two rows are crossbowmen. The front row of sword and shield men and pikemen all march on their waists, so that the crossbowmen in the back can shoot crossbow arrows at any time. Two empty spaces were left in the middle, and the two three-inch guns were pushed by the gunners together, and they followed the line.

The baggage soldiers also followed behind the team, and the team of nearly two thousand people pulled out a long line and slowly pushed towards the camp of the black bull.

The Black Bull was gathering in the midst of the explosion, trying to retreat immediately. However, his subordinates were devastated by the sudden explosion, panicked, and ran around. And most of his men didn't have time to put on the armor, so the lethality of the artillery this time increased exponentially. The scattered projectiles caused a sharp increase in casualties, and at the same time made them even more panicked.

"Let's go ahead of the head, the officers and soldiers are coming." A pro-soldier shouted to persuade.

The black bull looked at his subordinates running around, and also gave up collecting his subordinates, so he nodded and said, "Let's go first." ”

At this time, a personal soldier ran over and reported in a panic: "Chief, it's not good, our horses are all frightened, and they have run away with the cavalry's horses." ”

The black bull was struck by lightning. He was expecting to run as fast as he could, but now there were no horses.

"Run. Chieftains! The leader of his subordinates shouted: "This place is only five miles away from the big boss, not far." ”

"Let's go, let's go!" The black bull was reminded like this, but he remembered it. They came out to be a vigilance, not far from Luo Rucai's army.

As they ran, they beckoned the soldiers next to them to run with them, and the more the team ran, the more they gathered, and the hundreds of routs gathered.

And Luo Rucai also heard the explosion, and he also knew the news that there were fireworks exploding in the sky.

"Eight Lambs!" Luo Rucai scolded angrily: "Dare to put Lao Tzu together!" I must destroy you today! ”

He gritted his teeth and cursed, and then ordered his own soldiers: "Send people, go find the other troops, and let them all come here to meet!" I don't believe it, I have an army of 40,000, and I can't contain him 10,000! ”

Before his personal soldier could agree, a personal soldier ran in from outside and said in a panic: "Leader, run!" ”

"Bastard thing!" Luo Rucai roared: "What are you running?!" I'm going to wait here, wait for the army~"

Before he could finish speaking, the soldier pointed outside and shouted, "Horses, the horses are coming." ”

Luo Rucai also stopped, and heard the rumbling of horses' hooves getting closer and closer.

He immediately ran out of the tent, and saw a dark shadow rushing quickly in the distance to the west. He knew it was a herd of horses, and hundreds of herds of horses were galloping towards it.

Luo Rucai hurriedly ordered: "Quick! Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Let the horses scourge the officers and soldiers on the other side! ”

He knew that his men were completely unprepared, and they couldn't stop the crazy herd. If he let the horses attack Li Yan's military formation, it would be able to help him a lot.

In fact, without Luo Rucai's instructions, those thieves consciously fled to both sides, so many horses rushed over, and no one with an open head would stand in place and trample to death.

After a while, the herd rumbled through the camp, knocking down the tents, kicking over the campfire, and trampling to death a few slow ones. Leaving behind the mess and fire all over the ground, with the sound of the wind, he rushed towards Li Yan's military formation.

Li Yan's troops were ready at this time, they looked at the galloping war horses, although they were also afraid in their hearts, but they still stood firmly in the military formation, without the slightest movement.

"Ready!" Li Yan stared at the herd of horses, and when the herd of horses was still four hundred away from them, he personally ordered: "Open the cannon!" ”

"Tong", "Tong" a few times, and twenty tiger squat cannons fired the shells. After a while, more than 150 paces in front of the formation, a "rumbling" explosion began. The loud noise, along with the smoke and smoke of the explosion, formed a wall in front of the military formation.

"Keep firing!" Li Yan ordered: "Artillery preparation!" Crossbowmen prepare! ”

He had to be prepared for the bombs to keep the horses out of the way, and he would have to stop them with artillery and crossbow arrows. He couldn't let the horses overwhelm his army and give the thieves an opportunity.

The sound of the explosion, as well as the light of fire and smoke, frightened the running horses. Led by the head horse, they neighed and ran north.

Li Yan looked at the herd of horses running to the north, raised his hand, and ordered, "Stop launching." ”

At this time, everyone in the military formation breathed a sigh of relief. If the herd did come at us, I don't know how many of them would have lost their lives. If the enemy attacks, as long as their defenses are strong enough, the enemy will retreat. But the horses don't know how to retreat, which is really frightening.

"Send for all the forts on the north side, and seize all the horses, and give five sheaves of wheat to one horse." Li Yan hurriedly commanded. That's hundreds or thousands of horses, enough to triple his current cavalry fleet.

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